On AlterNet: food prices

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7 Billion People By October: How Are We Going to Feed Ourselves?

John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus. August 19, 2011.

As population rates skyrocket, millions of mouths to feed increase pressure on the world's farmers to squeeze more and more food from less and less arable land.

Garden As If Your Life Depended On It, Because It Does

Ellen LaConte, AlterNet. March 29, 2011.

There are at least five reasons why more of us should take up the spade, make some compost, and start gardening with a vengeance.

Shut Down the Global Financial Casino Where Food Is Traded Like a Poker Chip

Sarah Anderson, Other Words. November 16, 2010.

Excessive speculation played a significant role in the 2008 food crisis, when soaring prices pushed 130 million people into hunger in the world's poorest countries.

Prices in Haiti on the Rise While the Population Starves

Garry Pierre-Pierre, New America Media. January 22, 2010.

A gallon of cooking oil that cost $10 only days ago now fetches US$20. What will they cost tomorrow? No one knows.

Food Prices Hit Soup Kitchens Hard

Marcela Valente, IPS News. September 23, 2008.

In Argentina, spiraling costs are threatening the most vulnerable.

Are Organic Foods Getting Too Pricey for the Middle Class?

Jill Richardson, AlterNet. August 29, 2008.

Even Whole Foods and its upper-middle-class customers are feeling the pinch.

Hot Commodities, Stuffed Markets, and Empty Bellies -- Finance Industry Fuels the Food Crisis

Ben Collins, Dollars and Sense. August 12, 2008.

Prices of basic agricultural commodities have skyrocketed worldwide, threatening to further impoverish hundreds of millions of the world's poor.

How to Survive the Triple Whammy of Energy, Food and Climate Crises

John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus. August 5, 2008.

To survive we need to recognize that these threats are not separate problems, and they must be addressed as one major crisis.

Don't Mourn the Collapse of WTO Talks

Robert Weissman, Middle East Online. August 4, 2008.

Don't shed any tears for the death of the WTO talks -- the whole thing should have been called the Doha Anti-Development Round.

Food: A luxury Item?

Frei Betto, Latin America in Movement. July 16, 2008.

The average price of food has tripled in the last twelve months. We may soon be buying our groceries from a boutique.

Markets in Crisis: Inside the Commodities Bubble

Sameer Dossani, Foreign Policy in Focus. July 8, 2008.

The story of rising food costs and the simultaneous collapse in many financial markets is unlikely to be a coincidence.

The Real Cost of Cheap Food

Will Allen, AlterNet. June 6, 2008.

The question about the real price of food should be rephrased: Is it worth sending cheap, poisonous food to the starving masses?

Why Michael Pollan and Alice Waters Should Quit Celebrating Food-Price Hikes

Tom Philpott, Grist.org. April 28, 2008.

Why rising food prices may not send people rushing off to the nearest farmers market.

Why the Era of Cheap Food Is Over

Peter Ford, Christian Science Monitor. January 7, 2008.

Corn, milk, bread, and other farm products hit record high prices in 2006 and will likely keep rising in 2008.

Prices for Key Foods are Rising Sharply; Half of Eligible Poor Don't Get Food Stamps

Kevin Hall, Rob Hotakainen, McClatchy Newspapers. August 14, 2007.

Already stung by a two-year rise in gasoline prices, American consumers now face sharply higher prices for foods they can't do without. At the same time, half of the nation's eligible poor aren't getting the food stamps to which they're entitled